Residents of Kashgar in the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region can leave their wallets at homewhen they want to shop for a smartphone or tablet computer.
Instead, they just need to take their sheep.
A smartphone can be had for a sheep, and a laptop costs four sheep, according to leafletshanded out by Huang Jie, a local computer dealer.
The 29-year-old decided to run a special promotion to give people a better idea of the value ofhis products and encourage them to use their sheep to buy his roducts.
Huang has been handing out leaflets in villages around the city during weekends to promotehis idea.
"The demand for computers in the villages is very high. Some children even carve keyboardson their desks," he said.
"Many believe computers are very expensive, I want to show them that electronic products areactually quite affordable by comparing their values with their most familiar commodity — sheep.
"I often found people selling their sheep for less than market value because the villages are farfrom the city. But they can trade their sheep with me, and I help them sell the sheep at a fairprice. I will return the money to them if it's more than the price of the product they purchased,"Huang added.
Huang said on June 2 that some people have shown an interest in trading sheep but he hasn'tmade a deal yet. Some villages still don't have Internet connections, which makes the sales ofcomputers there difficult, he added.
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